[PVE-User] Backup retention policy

[Fabrizio Cuseo]

Hello Steve.
I know that is possibile with a custom (and simple) script, but as you are writing is something that is better to avoid.

Having all on the web gui can make, for a customer, all simpler; and I think that is a feature that will be appreciated from any user.

Thanks for you reply.

Regards, Fabrizio 


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Da: "Steve Audia" <saudia at andrew.cmu.edu>
A: admin at extremeshok.com
Cc: "Fabrizio Cuseo" <f.cuseo at panservice.it>, "pve-user" <pve-user at pve.proxmox.com>
Inviato: Mercoledì, 22 maggio 2013 11:15:38
Oggetto: Re: [PVE-User] Backup retention policy



If it's just the rotation part you need, you could handle that on the backup server side with a short script, copying the dailies into weekly folders, weeklies into monthly folders, etc. 


I know, rolling a custom script is something some want to avoid, but this particular script would be very straight forward. I've been using this guy's strategy for years... 

http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ 


...and now that is rolled into a utility called rsnapshot ( www.rsnapshot.org ). In this case, you would only use to rotate, though, not actually back up. 






On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 6:33 AM, admin extremeshok.com < admin at extremeshok.com > wrote: 


Yes and delta backups. 

Ie.. full backup every week, then a delta backup every day. 

Thanks 


On 2013-05-16 01:58 PM, Fabrizio Cuseo wrote: 
> Hello people. 
> 
> I am seeing that Proxmox misses a very important features about backup retention. 
> 
> An example could be: 
> 
> - Last week, N backup daily 
> - Last month, N backup weekly 
> - Last year, N backup monthly 
> 
> So, with a total of 9 backups, I could have: 
> 
> - The last 3 daily backups 
> - The last 3 weekly backups 
> - The last 3 montly backups 
> 
> Another nice feature could be a "pool" selection of VM's to backup, so adding a VM in the pool will insert the VM in the backup schedule. 
> 
> Also the machine name in the backup file will be useful (i have already read about it in the mailing list). 
> 
> Thanks, Fabrizio 
> 
> 
> 
> 



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